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`"The War of the Apocalyptics"`, the first book in the `Launch 1980` story sequence, is now available

Information on placing orders can be found here; much more on the novel can be found here and here

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The Thirty Second Synopsis

The gods and goddesses, the demons and monsters, of ancient mythologies have been trivialized, their worship proscribed and the entities themselves confined to another realm. Their ongoing battles are chronicled throughout Jim McPherson's PHANTACEA Mythos.

In "The War of the Apocalyptics" a number of these acknowledged devils break out of the Sedon Sphere, the dimensional barrier between the Inner and the Outer Earth. Among them are four Apocalyptics: War, Death, Disease and Destruction. Death looks pregnant.

The 17-year Secret War of Supranormals ended in December 1955. At the end of November 1980, 1955's Last of the Supranormals re-emerge whole, bodies with minds, from nearly a quarter century in Limbo. Since they do so on Damnation Isle, in the Aleutian Chain of islands, they consequently decide to call themselves the Damnation Brigade. They may be all that can stand against the Apocalyptics and their allies.

Although evidently mortal and mostly human, they may also be the sons and daughters of the gods and goddesses, the demons and monsters, of ancient mythologies.

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Cover for The War of the Apocalyptics, artwork by Ian Bateson, 2009lon,

©Jim McPherson, 2009

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Front and Back Cover for `"The War of the Apocalyptics"`

James H McPherson, Publisher. Cover artwork by Ian Bateson, 2009. Text by Jim McPherson, 2009.

Lynx leading to a partial list of excerpts from the novel can be found here. Back cover text can be found here. As above, much more on the novel can be found here and here.

List price is $23.00 in Canada and $22.00 in the USA. For a limited time, orders placed via email through www.phantacea.com will include postage for anywhere in Canada or the USA. I will still have to charge you 13% for Canadian and provincial Goods and Sales Taxes. Plus, you will still have to send me certified cheques or money via surface mail before I ship the book(s).

However, individual copies of "The War of the Apocalyptics" can be also ordered from amazon.com and its affiliates, including amazon.ca and amazon.co.uk, as well as from Barnes & Noble and a number of other popular online booksellers. Bookstores and bookseller collectives can place bulk orders through Ingram Books, Ingram International, Baker & Taylor and/or many other distributors worldwide. Everyone wants your business so just ask and chances are it, or they, shall be delivered.

Since Lightning Source Inc (LSI) has exclusive rights to distribute the novel, a partial list of LSI's distribution partners, including a number outside of Canada or the USA, is here. Or you can email your order(s) directly to me today and I'll either arrange to fill them myself or send you details as to how you can order copies of the novel wherever you live. Enquiries cost zip.

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James H. McPherson, Publisher, presents a PHANTACEA Mythos Print Publication

Front cover for War-Pox, Artwork by Ian Bateson, 2009

Cover Artwork by Ian Bateson, 2009

PHANTACEA: Anheroic Fantasy since 1977

Back Cover Blurb

The Launching of the Cosmic Express took place on November 30, 1980. The Moloch Sedon found the whole thing so distasteful he spat it out again.

The night’s sky darkened but stars didn’t dim. They escaped. The ten members of the Damnation Brigade, one of who wasn’t anywhere near human, though she was supranormally gifted, couldn’t have been happier. They’d survived a quarter century in Limbo. For now!

Plague, Murder, War and Disaster, they're Apocalyptics; immortal devils. They're among the stars that escaped the Sedon Sphere. Murder's pregnant. She'll give birth on the Inner Earth if D-Brig doesn't stop her first.

From the creator of the PHANTACEA Mythos and the writer of ‘Feeling Theocidal’ comes Fallen Angel Devils, comes unrelenting Action, comes the Damnation Brigade, comes the first book of the Launch 1980 cycle.

©copyright 1977 - 2010 Jim McPherson

The background image for this page and the panels above and below this box are blurry versions of Ian Bateson's front cover for "The War of the Apocalyptics", as adjusted by Jim McPherson, 2009; the setting is Damnation Isle in the Aleutians; the characters depicted are Demon Land (Antaeor Thanatos) and Devil Wind (Vayu Maelstrom); the cover is a variation of one prepared by Ian Bateson for PHANTACEA Phase One #2 circa 1986; there's more on the Phase One project here whereas the rest of Ian Bateson's artwork for Phase One #2 are here and here.